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  1. Petrie / Nicholson Family

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    I remember the origional Top club

    It was me that flagged down the police car in the early hours and pointed out the gas coming through the paving stones. When the PC took out his portable radio and started transmitting directly over the leak I made my excuses and left - pronto!

    The rest - as they say - is history! :rolleyes:

  4. Whats Happening In Bedlington

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    Dear Home-sick,

    The weather is lousy - as per usual!

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    Damp overcast, and dullish.

    Ground: Wet

    Cloud cover: 100%

    Precipitation: Nil

    Wind: Zero (unusual)

    OAT (Outside Air Temp): 15.4c

    (Sensor is in a favourable southerly position, so others in the town may not measure it that high.)

    Sunshine: Nil :(

    Visibility: 1 Mile

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  5. Kiss Me! Kiss My...

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    what on earth is going on today? :blink:

    I think it's maybe that Russian "girl of your dreams looking for love" again! Moscow can be a lonely place! ;)

    After all, there's lots of Marios in Bedders; can't move for them on the Front Street! Pity you can't find a real plumber! :lol: :lol:

  6. Old Places In Bedlington

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    Butchers shop isn't much help, there used to be lots up and down the Front (main) Street and elsewhere. The name of the butchers would help though. We couldn't be talking about Walkers *the* Butchers could we?

    The numbers on both Front Street East and West (high steet) don't go quite that high. They run upwards going from both directions toward The Market Place (town center). Both sets of numbers end something either side of a hundred, but never as high as the 140's.

  7. Old Places In Bedlington

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    Not sure threegee Im taking the address from the 1861 census it says 146 could it be walker terrace?

    Can you pass me the link to the census data? What does the number 146 refer to?

    Thinking about it I have a distant memory of a Water Tce. or Water Rd., or somesuch. But we're talking Sleekburn way here, and nowhere near Bedlington town, so it probs wouldn't appear on a Bedlington street map of any date.

    Walter does not ring any bells - except maybe Walter Wilson's, the grocery chain who had a presence in Bedders for many many decades.

    Update

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    Hmm.. there's a Waterfield Road down by the site of the former powerstations - doh! - really SHOULD have remembered that! :mellow:

    http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?cli...&multimap.y=406

  8. Old Places In Bedlington

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    ...Has anyone got any info on were Walter terrace is...

    Are you absolutely sure that's Walter and not Water?

    ...where would I find the old maps of Bedlington...

    In the county archive at Morpeth. amongst other places. We do have a quite good scan of a mid 1800's one somewhere. Will try to locate and republish it.

    But Bedlingtonshire covers(ed) quite a large area and I don't believe that W?? Tce. would be at all near the main street (Front Street) - which is what that map centres on.

  9. The Percy

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    Sort it out, Threegees! :angry:

    Happy now? :rolleyes: There needs to be something for the great unwashed (the 800 unregistered visitors each day) to read, now that what's here is only for them wot at least provide a genuine e-mail address! :D

  15. Dear "Girl Of Your Dreams Looking For Love"

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    Thanks for the offer, but this is one thing we have plenty of in The Town without importing it from Russia!

    The same goes for the pills advertiser; the guy selling software to protect my PC, and others. Thank you, but read the rules - the BedBay forums are for local residents and firms only!

    Now, those local people may have nothing at all to sell; have all their wants met, and some might claim that for the most part they are lazy SOBS; web illiterate couch potatoes; totally lacking any enterprise; and apt to look gift horses in the mouth - but that's as it may be! Time will tell. ;)

  16. Old Police Station

    in History Hollow

    Posted

    ..think its dated back to the 1700's...

    I don't think they would have even recognised the term Police Station in the 1700's BLoB! Justice would have been a lot more swift and certain in those days! :lol:

    From the looks of the build it has to date from somewhere about the begining of the 20thC or the very late 1800's at earliest. There are certainly photos around showing the original stone buildings that stood at the "top end", and still photography isn't that old either!

    BTW you can both PM through your panel - far safer than posting an e-mail address on a public forum where it will be quickly spidered and bombarded with spam. :D

  17. Bedbay

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    There you go.

    Terribly sorry but it wasn't there when I last looked - at least that's my current story! :rolleyes:

    I've improved the "moderator approval required" notifications so that they don't get gobbled by the great spam filter in the sky.

  20. Bedbay

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    On a serious note, I feel having to give out home numbers is a bit too much; it would put a lot of people off using the service.

    Point taken, having a rethink. I need a way to ascertain that it's Joe from Hotspur Avenue, and not Ahmed from the Fraudsville Cybercafe, Lagos, Nigeria. ;)

    On the other hand you'd happily pay to publish it in the local rag. And... would you buy from some anonymous handle on the Internet? :unsure:

  22. New Sign

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    ...all the above information has been published in the magazine “In Touch” which is regularly distributed to EVERY household in the Wansbeck area!”
    Not to our household it hasn't! :(

    Ours is probably in a bundle in a hedge in someone's back garden - like most of our News Posts! :rolleyes:

    Of course WDC could make use of the facilities here for FREE. But doubtless that's an inappropriate use of public money! :D

    AND... Councillor ********* - if you're reading this, you promised many moons ago to come on board and answer the queries of your electors. You are conspicious by your absence. Come election time this may return to haunt you. <_< Or... are you banking on a well-paid retirement before your neglect of the Town finally catches up with you?

  23. "Quiet Period" Maintenance

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    Sat 12:40

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    We're using the unusually low activity on all domains to carry out server software updating and clean up.

    This may involve a server reboot or two or three during which bedlington.co.uk won't respond at all for a few minutes at a time.

    At the moment though Personal Messaging is working fine emailing other members through the board isn't - the result of a low-level software upgrade having caused an unforseen problem. :rolleyes: We're looking into this problem as top priority, as many other domains are involved.

    3G

    Sat 16:04

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    eMail service now restored.

  25. Whats Happening In Bedlington

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    I will tell you exactly what's at the core of Bedlington's problems.

    This isn't my personal opinion, it comes from the mouths of the

    culprits themselves - the present councillors that represent the Town!

    The problem is that they are very sure of their support base - people

    who would turn out to vote for them, no matter what! Those people

    reside mainly in the East of the Town. They also know that people

    living on the new private estates only sleep in the place, drive

    straight out every morning in their cars, and generally couldn't give

    a monkeys! Those folk are hard work for any sort of opposition to

    garner support from.

    The consequence is that the people who have to earn their living in

    the place - either employer or employee - aren't properly represented

    on WDC. So.. the Town gets regularly shafted!

    Only when the people who keep this lot of time-servers in office do

    the decent thing by the Town, and refuse to turn out to support them,

    will we get any change. Either that or some pretty publicity-grabbing

    mass civil disobedience, which, given the present apathy, would be

    very hard to organise.

    That's the truth of it, and no politician of any political persuasion

    will say any different in private conversation.

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